This is the page where we will list the book nominations. If it is your turn to nominate books, please place the name and author + link to more info or review in this section. We can then review the list and vote. Feel free to nominate a book that has been nominated before.
Email me the list of books and a website with a review (or I can find one for you) and I will upload them on to this page for you. I will also create the survey once the nominations are up.
Book 36
‘Women and Power’ Mary Beard 'The Power’ Naomi Alderman ‘The Whistler’ John Grisham
Email me the list of books and a website with a review (or I can find one for you) and I will upload them on to this page for you. I will also create the survey once the nominations are up.
Book 36
‘Women and Power’ Mary Beard
'The Power’ Naomi Alderman
‘The Whistler’ John Grisham
Book 36
Our Souls at Night - Kent HarufThe Midnight Watch - David DyerEverywhere I Look. - Helen Gardner
Book 35
To be voted on by Friday 16th June
The Strays - Emily Bitto
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everywhere I Look - Helen Gardner
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Book 34
A Man called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Reckoning - Magda Szubanski
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Book 33
To be voted on by Friday 10h February
Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
The Midnight Watch - David Dyer
Our souls at night - Kent Haruf
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Book 32
To be voted on by Friday 25th November
The Turner House – Angela Flournoy
When the Doves Disappeared – Sofi Oksanen
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos -Dominic Smith
Book 31
To be voted on by Friday 23rd September
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
The Green Road - Anne Enright
My Life on the Road - Gloria Steinem
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7X26GTR
Book 30
To be voted on by Friday 22nd July
A Good Man in Africa - William Boyd
A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson
Somewhere Towards the End - Diana Athill
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Book 29
To be voted on by Friday 20th May
Touba and the Meaning of Night - Shahrnush Parsipur
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi
The Bees - Laline Paull
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Book 28
To be voted on by Monday 18th March
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
Ride A Cock Horse - Raymond Kennedy
10:04 - Ben Lerner
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Book 27
To be voted on by Friday 4th March
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking - Anya von Bremzen
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
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Book 26
To be voted on by Friday 20th November
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
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Book 25
To be voted on by Friday 20th November
The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks
The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Attwood
Hope Farm - Peggy Frew
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Book 24
To be voted on by Friday 2nd October
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
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Book 23
To be voted on by Friday 14th August
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon Jamed
Amnesia - Peter Carey
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
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Book 22
To be voted on by Friday 19th June
The Signature of All Things - by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Tiger's Wife - by Tea Obreht
Quicksand - by Steve Tolz
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Book 21
To be voted on by Friday 24th April
The Ginger Tree - Oswald Wynd
How to be Both - Ali Smith
The Children's Act - Ian McEwan
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Book 20
To be voted on by Friday 27th February
A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Americanah - Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
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Book 19
To be voted on by Friday 28 November
Americanah - Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
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Book 18
To be voted on by Friday 3rd October
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe - Romain Puertolas
Stoner - John Williams
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
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Book 17
To be voted on by Friday 8th August
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
Beware of the plot spoiler in the review of the Fowler book
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Book 16
To be voted on by Friday 13 June
Bereft - Chris Womersley
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: Helen Simonson
Lovesong - Alex Miller
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Book 15
To be voted on by Friday 18th April
Eyrie - Tim Winton
Glitter and Glue - Kelly Corrigan
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W7Z6Y37
Book 14
To be voted on by Friday 14th February
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Barracuda - Christos Tsiolkas
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
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Book 13
To be voted on by Friday 20th December
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
There but for the - Ali Smith
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Book 12
To be voted on by Friday 4th October
Beautiful Ruins - Jess Walter
Boomer & Me - Jo Case
Past the Shallows - Favel Parrett
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PHFDRH8
Book 11
To be voted on by Friday 9th August
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
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Book 10
To be voted on by Friday 14th June
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Book 9
To be voted on by Friday 19th April
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
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Book 8
To be voted on by Friday 15th February
So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa
The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QYVCV25
Book 7
To be voted on by Friday 28th December
Canada - Richard Ford
The Old Ways, A Journey on Foot, Robert MacFarlane
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
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Book 6
To be voted on by Friday 9th November
All that I Am- Anna Funder
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
Blindness - Jose Saramago
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CD5YJ9G
Book 5
To be voted on by Friday 21st September
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
The Fault in our Stars - John Green
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
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Book 4
To be voted on by Friday 3rd August
The Other Hand (also known as Little Bee) - Chris Cleve
Purple Hibiscus - Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
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Book 3
To be voted on by Friday 15th June
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
Naked - David Sedaris
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Book 2
To be voted on by Friday 27th April
The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waa
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Sarah Thornhill - Kate Grenville
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Book 1**
To be voted on by Friday 9th March
Great House - Nicole Krauss
Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waa
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